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Hi All

I appreciate that this may not be the correct area to post this request, this is the first time I’ve needed help with expression engine. I would also like to thank all support responses in advance.

We have recently taken over an expression engine site.

http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/.

So far we have kept the current system ticking over and that has been fine but now we need to use the actual expression engine system to create a page.

I have been requested to create a ‘bulletin board’ area before Friday. This bulletin board is different to the bulletin board found on the control panel. It would be a single page that would display internal news items. However, the news items would be split into categories, job opportunities, career events, and university events.

There is currently a news section in place but this only features one category, not 3.

http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/news

So I would need a page similar to this, but with a box on the right hand side linking to three different pages. The content of the main page would be pulling in all 3 categories.

We have an area similar to what we need for the seminars area of the site

http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/seminars

The trouble is that I need basic help with creating a page that pulls information in from other pages, as this bulletin board will need to. Would someone be able to explain this to me?

I hope this all makes sense, I’m hoping that I’m asking quite a basic question and this isn’t too difficult a task.

Thanks again for any help

Oxford10

Hi All

I appreciate that this may not be the correct area to post this request, this is the first time I’ve needed help with expression engine. I would also like to thank all support responses in advance.

We have recently taken over an expression engine site.

http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/.

So far we have kept the current system ticking over and that has been fine but now we need to use the actual expression engine system to create a page.

I have been requested to create a ‘bulletin board’ area before Friday. This bulletin board is different to the bulletin board found on the control panel. It would be a single page that would display internal news items. However, the news items would be split into categories, job opportunities, career events, and university events.

There is currently a news section in place but this only features one category, not 3.

http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/news

So I would need a page similar to this, but with a box on the right hand side linking to three different pages. The content of the main page would be pulling in all 3 categories.

We have an area similar to what we need for the seminars area of the site

http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/seminars

The trouble is that I need basic help with creating a page that pulls information in from other pages, as this bulletin board will need to. Would someone be able to explain this to me?

I hope this all makes sense, I’m hoping that I’m asking quite a basic question and this isn’t too difficult a task.

Thanks again for any help

Oxford10

hey Oxford10

i’m not sure if you found your solution, it didn’t seem like you had the different sections you needed yet.

i’m sure there are many ways to accomplish what you seek, but the easiest way to me would be to create three categories (job opportunities, career events, and university events).

connect the categories to the weblog and then in each entry choose the categories that suit the entry.

then create a link in your template to each of those categories, with the corresponding category ID number appended to the link. ex:

http://www.domain.com/index.php/news/C12

(where category 12 is one of your three categories).

you can see an example of massive category use at
http://www.maximumink.com/index.php/calendar/

in the sidebar, just hold your cursor over the different links to see how they link to different categories, and pull back entries only related to them.

hope that helps.

oxford10, you may have been contacted by someone to help on a consultancy basis, and will hope so. Just in case, looking at the links you’ve offered, this may be a very straightforward job.

In that case, you would be able to use simply modified copies of the templates which operate the pages you show from your Upcoming Economic Seminars - http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/seminars.

To create the copies, you’d use the Create Template selection and dropdown list offered as Duplicate Existing Template, once you’ve identified the templates which are generating those Seminar pages.

The ability you seem to be asking for is identical in pattern. You need some new categories, and may choose to use a fresh EE1 weblog or EE2 channel for the information, or just add the newly categoried items to the original weblog.

You’d change the text to suit on the new templates, and follow through the old design. That design may even use just one template - that’s at least one way to have done it, as the information is very similar before and after choosing a category to display. The added subtitle is probably the actual text category name.

Data entry will be just like the Seminar site, likely by publishing entries via the Control Panel.

It would be a few hours of effort. If you’re not ready to do that, assuredly someone can answer your request here, and do it on a consulting basis, from the EE commmunity.

You should make that request clearly if that’s what you want, so someone will pick it up. Alternatively the team can move your interest here to the appropriate community group if you are going to proceed on this by yourself.

Hope this helps. Thanks for the chance to remember Oxford - used to visit there with much pleasure and intersst.

Regards,
Clive